Chiasm

Ecclesiastes 11:7–12:2

Ecclesiastes 11:7–12:24 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
- B 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
  - C 9a Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,
    - D 9b and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes:
      - E 9c but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
    - D' 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
  - C' 12:1a Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,
- B' 12:1b while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
A' 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

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